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A Democratic mayor from a small town in Massachusetts recently urged state lawmakers to reform the state's "right-to-shelter" law amid the growing migrant crisis straining local resources, the New York Times reported. Scott Galvin, the mayor of Woburn, a town located approximately 10 miles northwest of Boston, pleaded with lawmakers to reform a 1983 law requiring officials to provide shelter to homeless families, including pregnant women and those with children. Massachusetts is the only state in the nation with a right-to-shelter law. Galvin argued that the law was "passed at a different time and was not meant to cover what...

Two restaurants were raided by federal and local law enforcement in Woburn, Massachusetts, Tuesday morning in a human trafficking and indentured servitude operation allegedly conducted by several members of one family. The Dog House and Tudo Na Brasa, both on the same block on Main Street and owned by the family, were swarmed by authorities in a raid connected to allegations of human trafficking that was first reported by NBC10 Boston. Jesse Moraes and his son Hugo Moraes, Woburn residents and co-owners of the restaurants, were smuggling people into the country illegally, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal...

A letter penned by a young Army sergeant in Germany to his mother in Woburn was lost in the mail for 76 years until finally being delivered last month. On Dec. 6, 1945, 22-year-old Sgt. John Gonsalves wrote to his mother, sending his well wishes and hopes of returning home soon.

China was once very dependent on US chips for its phones. The latest Chinese phones have no US parts. The Wall Street Journal reports Huawei Manages to Make Smartphones Without American Chips. American tech companies are getting the go-ahead to resume business with Chinese smartphone giant Huawei Technologies Co., but it may be too late: It is now building smartphones without U.S. chips. Huawei’s latest phone, which it unveiled in September—the Mate 30 with a curved display and wide-angle cameras that competes with Apple Inc.’s iPhone 11—contained no U.S. parts, according to an analysis by UBS and Fomalhaut Techno Solutions,...

A creepy crime in one Boston suburb has police unsettled: a burglar who breaks in while people inside are sleeping — and then waits for them to wake up. He’s a creepy burglar accused of breaking into homes in the middle of the night. Police say he ends up in peoples’ bedrooms — lurking and watching — until the person wakes up. Then, police say he apologizes before taking off.

(In 2008, Dominic Cinelli told the Massachusetts Parole Board that he was “deeply sorry’’ and a “new and different’’ man.) Dominic Cinelli sat before the Massachusetts Parole Board in November 2008 and insisted that he was no longer the heroin addict who shot a security guard during an armed robbery to feed his drug habit. “I’m new and different,’’ he said in a soft voice. “But I realize that deep inside me there is still that ugliness, and I know that I have to deal with that and control that, and I’m doing a real good job of it.’’ Four...